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...Rome last week statesmen of six European nations assembled in a vast, frescoed hall atop Capitoline Hill. All about them were reminders of the age when Europe all the way from Hadrian's Wall in the south of Scotland to Roman outposts on the Black Sea acknowledged the law of the Caesars. Before them on a damask-covered table lay the latest instruments for reunifying Europe-the treaties that would establish the Western European Common Market and the European Atomic Energy Community...
...Hadrian's Wall. Today an invisible Hadrian's wall still divides British art into a realm of excitable, Celtic imagination that runs from Blake to Bacon on one side and a John Bull love of country, landscape and solid realities concretely rendered on the other. The impact of surrealism unleashed for the late Paul Nash and Graham Sutherland, both admirers of Blake, a freedom of fancy that has led them to the essence and mystery behind the English landscape, just as it inspired Sculptor Moore in his early bone and stone metamorphoses...
Personality: Burke is a sturdy man (5 ft. 11 in., 200 Ibs.) with a deceptively easy smile and a soft voice. At home in Washington with his wife (they have no children), he likes torelax with a curved pipe, tweed jacket, a drink and a book. (His latest: Hadrian's Memoirs.} Actually, he gets little chance to relax. During his last tour in Washington, he read reports and ate hot dogs at his desk during his lunch hour, telephoned aides any time between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. Like all blue-water sailormen, he is at his best...
...prestigious Prix Femina (awarded by an all-woman jury), and more than 60 novels by women were thought to have enough merit to become candidates for the major literary awards. In a class by themselves are the prizewinning historical studies-51-year-old Marguerite Yourcenar's Hadrian's Memoirs (TIME, Nov. 29) and 38-year-old Zoé Oldenbourg's The Cornerstone (TIME, Jan. 10). But, like Colette, few of the ladies write historicals or go to libraries for material. They supply their own, proving themselves much bolder practitioners of the entre-les-draps (between-the-sheets...
...Hadrian's Memoirs, by Marguerite Yourcenar. A first-rate novel about the great soldier-emperor who first called Rome eternal (TIME...